The 9th judgment
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro is the ninth installment in the Women’s Murder Club novels. It is the first of the Women’s Murder Club mysteries that I have read. I found it to be very interesting.
It is no surprise that Patterson and Paetro do a wonderful job with The 9th Judgment. As of the book’s spring of 2010 publishing James Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most New York Times bestsellers. His skill in story-telling is superb and the book does an excellent job of drawing you in, even though you know all the players almost immediately.
Part of what keeps you guessing is wondering what the “bad guys” will do. Knowing the identities of all the book’s players does nothing to distract from the tension necessary in thrillers. Patterson and Paetro do an excellent job of developing the tension in the story. I read it in less than twenty-four hours, I found it so interesting. I truly didn’t want to put it down.
Here is an excerpt from the Chapter One of The 9th judgment:
“She jerked away from him, dropping her phone into the foot well. She climbed halfway into the backseat.
Pete fired, the round whizzing through the suppressor, hitting the woman in the neck. She grabbed at the wound, blood spouting through her fingers.
‘My baby,’ she gasped.
‘Don’t worry. He won’t feel anything. I promise,” Pete Gordon said.
He shot the woman again, poof, this time in the side of her chest, then opened the back door and looked at the bawler, nodding off, mouth sticky with cotton candy, blue veins tracing a road map across his temple.”
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, copyright 2010 by James Patterson, published by Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017, ISBN 978-0-316-03627-6
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